can someone show me a NEW shoegaze band

Please can I recommend Ian Sweet (not a solo guy, actually a solo woman / eponymous band), who only seems to have been mentioned twice ever on ILM and not at all in this thread. I was drawn to her music in by lush (lowercase L) guitar textures and unusual chord voicings that put me in mind of 90s Blonde Redhead or Sonic Youth. Last year I played her album Crush Crusher to death and she has a new song, Dumb Driver, which is pretty fricking nice. As with BR, she's an alumnus of Berklee and, fittingly, is the cover star on a Berklee shoegaze podcast on Spotify.

Sounds good, thanks!

I'm about two minutes into this new No Joy album and yes it is very very good

don't really know where to put this, but this is a great version of this jefre cantu-ledesma song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07d_coPy7Ws

that's "Julie Byrne & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Love's Refrain" btw

I was selling records and a guy described a band as “shoegaze” but 100% unironically pronounced it to rhyme with Fugazi.

That is how I'm saying shoegaze from now on.

Shugazi would be a good tribute band schtick

would love a full album of Byrne and Cantu-Ledesma now

Agreed! I love Julie Byrne's voice but I've never really been too excited about the music on her records before

The new Nothing really hits on some MBV vibes, especially on the back half of the record. Not particularly original, but def some nice shoegaze guitar work.

Not that new, but more recent than the heyday of shoegaze...been going back to this sound, and I've been playing Vissuda a lot. From 2013.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGmij0adCJc

They're not new, really, but: Keith Kenniff, who does stuff as Helios and Goldmund, and his wife Hollie have a duo called Mint Julep that hits a really lovely electronic pop/shoegaze sweet spot -- new album out yesterday

https://mintjulep.bandcamp.com/album/in-a-deep-and-dreamless-sleep

Beautiful new single from Suzanne Kraft. Track 2 is the one here, down to the melty whammy bar

https://melodyastruth.bandcamp.com/album/on-our-hands-waiting?fbclid=IwAR3k4hUBBewA-UeM17bsX8MrKQdss2G6_IB4cu14zMj6My9NRk5k0TLYZDQ

파란노을 (Parannoul) - To See the Next Part of the Dream

srsly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV3MpfosuxU

parannoul record rules, there's good tunes buried in the garageband murk

I'd lost track of Pia Fraus over the years, but last year's 'Empty Parks' album is extremely nice as it turns out.

Flyying Colours - "White Knuckles", one of the best neo-shoegaze I've heard in ages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMcNM8ykCyI

Flyying Colours - "White Knuckles", one of the best neo-shoegaze I've heard in ages

Happy to see more folks discovering them. I first ran across them on one of Going Steady Music's mixtapes and each subsequent release has only been better. Check 'em out: https://flyyingcolours.bandcamp.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBMUqTt2AVs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9wnpiiMUJs

this is grebt but also i'm waiting for peter hook to somehow sue the fuck out of them for 'it's real'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6XmySDTtoQ

Ha I was thinking it was the same tune as “Dancing in the Dark”

Mexican band Margaritas Podridas, sounds wonderful, grungey too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy8ERGh3UZ0

Yeah they're solid, need to relisten to them more.

new Suzanne Kraft album might as well be an archival re-issue from 1992, but I love it

thanks for the nudge boxedjoy, am enjoying it! I'm also hearing a bit of a mid 90s American indie thing through sort of a chillwave filter. Don't remember any other suzy k stuff sounding quite like this, but I think hes written some interesting songs here

Ooh, new Flyying Colours sounds great. Jack Rabid has been praising them for years but I can't remember if I checked the earlier stuff out.

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I looove the new Suzanne Kraft album! Was wondering what it reminded me of, esp. the start of the opening track rang a bell that I couldn't place. Turns out it's The System mini album that came out on Music from Memory a few years back.

I feel like I’ve posted the Greek band Alien Mustangs here, but I didn’t see ‘em in a search. _Alienation_ is really good core skills gaze, always satisfies me. Not so new anymore. Last years Beat of the Earth is ok too.

Flyying Colours on KEXP this week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1kzLn2jgVM

Fans of the shugazi sound might find this relevant to their interests (which, full disclosure, I contributed to)

https://✧✧✧.un✧✧✧.c✧.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Shoeg✧✧✧@1400x1050-1392x1✧✧✧.j✧✧

https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/blogs/introducing-the-ultimate-genre-guide-to-shoegaze-133706/

Oh nice, that will definitely be one worth picking up when I see it.

Just was recommended this playlist but it seems too long, just shy of eleven hours:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX6ujZpAN0v9r?si=W_C-hMj-SsqIJQ0LBO0AJQ&dl_branch=1

Found strictly by chance -- Lunation Fall out of France, with a debut EP this year. Dreamy with a bit of Lush to it as well, if you like the first track you'll like the whole thing:

https://lunationfall.bandcamp.com/album/near

Wow, the Lunation Fall record is really good. Thanks for the tip. What are everyone’s favorite 2021 shoegaze albums? My top two are definitely Stomp Talk Modstone and Wednesday. I’ve also enjoyed records by Julia Shapiro, Lucid Express, Midwife, Crystal Canyon, Flyying Colours, Submotile, Mint Julep, White Flowers, Cathedral Bells, and alexalone. And although it’s not technically shoegaze, the Fax Gang record scratches the same itch.

I don't think I heard any of those records so thanks for posting. I really liked the Parannoul stuff which I guess is really an emo thing but it's recorded in a very layered shoegazey way

From Spain:
https://dharmacide.bandcamp.com/album/cult-band-member

'Dreams' first caught my ears and is the better single, but 'Filth' has a nicer video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtxeyQeOLVA

eccsame the photon band is the best shoegaze i found lately. better late than never. i find myself agreeing with commentary that describes it as fusing with slowcore.

I don't consider it shoegaze, myself! However I agree it is the best.

v reasonable opinions, both. you asked me elsewhere how i was liking it, i do officially love it now ha.

I've enjoyed the two YouTube videos of tracks from the upcoming SOM - The Shape of Everything.

From last year:
https://fastnbulbous.com/lucky-21/#shoegaze

cloakroom does this heavy melodic thing really well, their new album sounds like if sleep made jangle pop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IomuatUhhk

https://boringproductions.bandcamp.com/album/sprout

from china

Agree on the Cloakroom record. I'd been kinda lukewarm on them previously, but some of these new songs are flat-out beautiful. Really enjoying it. I've also gotten way into a record from about 10 years ago by a Japanese band called Sphere. The record is "syvyys." Great stuff. Will dig into those Dharmacide and Sound & Fury records mentioned upstream.

I've been getting huge enjoyment out of the Cloakroom album. Every song is really good, and there's a satisfying variety. It's close to Hum's Inlet at times, but a slightly easier listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMuNjgULtE8

anybody listen to vivienne eastwood? caught a song on WNYU and was hooked, they have some nice EPs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj2WSE9_asU

yah the cloakroom record is very much a riyl: hum thing, though hum doesn't really shoot for loveliness and the cloakroom guys def have it in their sights in songs like "doubts"